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Thanks for a calm and sensible post. Since we are all anonymous on FR it is easy to make untrue claims about background, position, etc. However, one tell-tale sign, for me, is when someone’s argument is weak they often turn to hyperbole. They call supporters of those whom they oppose bots and rinos. We typically see that from liberals since their arguments rarely, if ever, rely on logic.

Many who have historically supported someone else, or they do now, rely on tearing down the opposition rather than singing the praises of their choice. That is another Liberal tactic.

Personally, I support Perry. I like his enthusiasm. I have never seen him support any issue other than a conservative one. Like Palin said, he is consistent. Yet, there are those who see a political motive in every move rather than sincerity. That, too, is a typical Democrat/Liberal attitude.

Concerning Gardasil, some conveniently ignore that the parents of those girls always had the option to opt out. No one was going to be vaccinated against their will.

The other hot button for those who are against Perry is the Trans Texas Corridor. Those proposed routes were very logical and someday will be built. I-35 is crowded all the way from San Antonio to Kansa City and something will have to be done to relieve that sooner or later. Allowing someone else to build and pay for it and collect the tolls is smart.

The claims are that the land owners on each side will have to give up great swaths of their land for the highway. That is true of all highways and it will be true when I-35 has to be widened. Not often mentioned is that the landowners would be offered a fair price for their land and if they preferred they could participate in the tolls collected rather than sell. Most of the time landowners are delighted to have a main highway adjacent to their land. It actually increases the land’s value.

All of that opposition was just dreaming up reasons to oppose something by scaring others.

The buzzing bees of anti-Perry activists with their "Gardasil-TTC-Border" mantra will only continue to highlight and enhance a Gov. Rick Perry nomination as truth of his work here in Texas gains national exposure. Rick Perry as governor, used all resources at his disposal in an attempt to make a cancer vaccine available to Texas children. The governor is battling environmentalist activists in his push for more transportation infrastructure in a state exploding with commerce and population. And using state resources, Gov. Rick Perry (denied the necessary and requested federal help needed by a border state to deal with the consequences of current federal inaction, in addition to shouldering the continued fallout from past federal actions) works to hold the line on the 1250 mile section of the U.S. border between Texas and Mexico, our neighbor to the south.